iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The freaky ones will go Rocky Horror The Xers will go with Clue The troubled yutes will go Legend The boys will go with Red October But the real ones...the real ones go with Muppet Treasure Island

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a man with a beard wearing a bandana and a scarf

ALT: a man with a beard wearing a bandana and a scarf

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I don't believe in altruistic moral rules that exist in vacuum. I actually think that the true laws of morality are closer to "might makes right" than "help your fellow human". But I do still live by the latter.

Top: a big fish chases small fish

Bottom: a school of small fish bands together into the the shape of a giant fish, which chases the big fish

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 28/03/2025

I made a 10-minute, richly illustrated summary of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World (1666), a very early (some say earliest) Science Fiction novel. Please have a look and share if you like it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...

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The Blazing World (1666) by Margaret Cavendish

YouTube video by Helen De Cruz

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Art isn't just decoration, it's supposed to be a fundamental expression of the self. That's why I find it morally abhorrent whenever one persons pays another person for art. Luckily, new AI tools can finally give every human the ability to express themselves independently. /s

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Academics are so bad at asking questions after a presentation. "This is really more of a comment than a question" times infinity. Rambling disjointedly for two minutes and then trailing off, leaving the presenter to cobble something together from one or two keywords that got repeated.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Another survivor lesson: closeness can be defined by information sharing. If Adam tells Bob' secrets to Susan, but doesn't tell Susan's secrets to Bob, then Adam is objectively closer to Susan in some sense.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Tactical consideration of choosing to like media that your peers like: they are more likely to understand your metaphors

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Tactical consideration of choosing to like a thing your peers dislike: you feel less pressure to share. I show up to the party with a six-pack of pickle beer, and it will likely be safe till the end of the night. *note: only applies to things in limited quantity, not stuff like movies or music

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Today's is a good one existentialcomics.com/comic/594

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Does anyone actually think a shutdown would be good, or do they all just think the damage is worth it so long as voters blame Trump?

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Sometimes I think that the line between confidence and entitlement is so thin that the true difference is merely semantic.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Towards an objective definition of objectivity: Imagine if you made a bunch of Twitter polls describing a thing, and then asking people which word they'd choose to describe that thing. One some questions, there might be an even split. On others, there might be one answer with far more votes.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

"This view of ‘AI’ as a research field overlapping with psychology sees computational systems as theoretical tools (...) Accordingly, AI is one of the cognitive sciences (Figure 1), and for decades there was a close dialogue between the fields of AI and cognitive psychology." 3/n

Figure 1 in the paper, which shows the cognitive science hexagon, with psychology, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence on its vertices.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Bluesky fucking sucks 😒 Twitter was great but sucks now Facebook sucks Reddit is still pretty decent Instagram has never been good I can't bring myself to even try tikto

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"Women like it when men are vulnerable" (I do think this is usually true.) I used to think that the word "vulnerable" here was one of those cases where the same word meant different things in different contexts.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

From this book: teenagers Miles and Elena leave their backwards and conservative home planet Barrayar to visit Miles' mother's homeworld Beta Colony. On progressive, enlightened Beta Colony, people wear coded jewelry to indicate their relationship status and preferences. It made so much sense to me!

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

As a teenager I read voraciously. I used to think that I could tell the gender of the author by their writing. When I first read The Dispossessed, by Ursula K LeGuin, I misread the author's name as "Ursalak" and thought it was a male version of Ursula.

The Dispossessed, by Ursula K LeGuin. Cover art shows a figure staring at a huge moon

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I love to sing karaoke but I'm terrible at it. I like to think that that by going up there and confidently butchering my favorite songs, I give permission to the mediocre singers out there to actually feel some pride in the ability they do have.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A week of coaching from an actual expert is usually worth more than a year of practicing on your own

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Have you ever known someone who strongly reminded you of yourself, but who you also found incredibly annoying?

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Instead of hearing the lesson you learned, I get much more value from hearing about the experience which taught it to you

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I'm not a fan of Da Vinci code style political discourse

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Our society is still at the pre-industrial stage of social system engineering. Like medicine was 200 years ago. Much is known, especially about the examples that come to us from nature. But we are not yet ready to synthesize new compounds and test them.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Spitballing level idea: time-averaged intention Imagine you are weighing whether to move. You could record which way you are leaning every three days. After a month, calculate the average. Instead of just making one decision at the end of the month.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Man, the Bluesky UI copies twitter's very closely. I wonder if it will be a problem when the inevitable lawsuit comes.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Some people look at every event which happens in the world, and their first thought is just how to use it as a cudgel against their enemies. Try and understand something for it's own sake for once.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I've been thinking lately about the distinction between an excuse and and explanation, especially to me as a person who doesn't believe in free will. I came up with this: An excuse for a transgression exempts you from punishment. An explanation does not.

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I think it will be a "mostly win" for model developers if there's an opt out possibility "Opt in" is the disaster scenario for them

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I grew up disdaining reality TV. But a couple years ago, I became friends with a Survivor superfan, who convinced me to watch it with him. Since then I've seen about ten different seasons. I've learned a lot from it, including many things that apply to life outside the game.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Knowledge is not Wisdom, but "Knowledge is Power" is Wisdom

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Jack @tracewoodgrains.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

that barrier between people who learn languages as children and those who learn it as adults? realistically, it exists in many more fields. we're not culturally equipped to understand what native-level proficiency even looks like on most topics.

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big lou @thetallblonde.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

being on bluesky

Tweet from furby Hancock:

Waiter: so how is everything?
Me: great!
Waiter: (disgusted) even war?

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Random 🏺Ancient Bluesky question: is anyone aware of depictions of bird houses in Roman art? Not bird cages, but houses where wild birds could live? A few internet searches didn't turn up anything helpful but if anyone has leads they would be greatly appreciated!

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

resource consumption is a terrible peg to hang your opposition to AI on if it’s not your actual worry because 1) it’s mostly fictional and 2) to the extent it’s not fictional it won’t stay true

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

1) I hear about a new thinker that's getting popular 2) I try them out and read a bit of their work 3) I'm unimpressed and don't continue 4) thinker begins to generate controversy 5) I have only read a little bit of their work, so I don't take a side. Pattern has played out so many times.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I think the model of a binary political spectrum obscures more than it illuminates.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I'm a very low judgement person. This includes not judging other people for being more judgemental than me. It's not that I think it's bad, it's just not part of my programming.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Former OpenAi engineer leaves the company and calls it it out in the New York Times. Found dead by suicide a few months later 😕 www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/t...

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, died by suicide in his San Francisco apartment last month at the age of 26.

At OpenAI, among other projects, he helped gather and organize vast amounts of internet data that the company used to build ChatGPT, its online chatbot.

After learning more about copyright and fair use, he left OpenAI in August after four years. In his interview with the New York Times, he said that he came to the conclusion that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted data violated the law and that technologies like ChatGPT were damaging the internet. He no longer wanted to contribute to technologies that he believed would bring society more harm than benefit.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I'm willing to pay money for this app. Clicks for ads has been a disaster for online media. Only subscription service can sustain anything worth keeping.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 10/12/2024

TIL about the elusive Canadian House Hippo m.youtube.com/watch?v=dz1h...

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House Hippo 1999 Canadian commercial.

YouTube video by chelsea larry

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

HALF MY FEED: Science plagued by problems with reproducibility, junk journals, unpaid peer review, p-hacking, fraud, lack of registration, statistical shenanigans, perverse incentives! OTHER HALF: Follow the science!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 09/12/2024

and like we should change those things! populism is just a vibe! but like maybe we should also pair that with real economic reform to attack the fundamental problems with our increasingly rentier-dominated economy! www.liberalcurrents.com/its-not-the-...

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It's Not the One Percent. It's Your Neighbors.

The rentier economy that has a stranglehold on American quality of life includes a lot more than one percent of the population.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I have a loosely held opinion on some current bluesky drama, but I have a much stronger conviction that stupid drama should be ignored instead of amplified. Resist the siren call of the Shiri's Scissor

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Were Sperry & Gazziniga's split brain experiments ever replicated? They're some of the most interesting and important (and weird) results in the history of experimental psychology. But along with that weight, I'd like to know how reliable they really are.

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Daniel K @yozarian22.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

My experience with LLMs lately has been a lot of checking their answers and finding them incorrect. It makes me wonder how many of their answers I was accepting without realizing it was wrong.

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Laura Bronner @laurabronner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I really like this development. But it's interesting how much effort is expended on post-publication review, rather than proper pre-publication code review like I used to do at 538. Maybe checking data munging & analysis should be an integral part of peer review, done by paid journal employees -

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If you were to line up the entire legal academy by how much they respect SCOTUS, I would def be deep in the “hater” wing. This is a big reason why.

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